The Choctaws, being indebted to their merchants beyond what could be discharged by the ordinary proceeds of their huntings, and pressed for ...
The consolidation of the Mississippi Territory and the establishment of a barrier of separation between the Indians and our Southern neighbo...
I therefore now lay it before both Houses of Congress for the exercise of their constitutional powers as to the means of fulfilling it.
These designations, not at all suiting us, were declined.
I have particularly contemplated, with this view, the acquisition of the eastern moiety of the peninsula between the lakes Michigan, Huron, ...
I was at that time disinclined to its ratification, and I have suffered it to lie unacted on.
Still urged by their creditors, as well as by their own desire to be liberated from debt, they at length proposed to make a cession which sh...
The Senate having advised and consented to the ratification of this treaty, I now lay it before both Houses of Congress for the exercise of ...
By a treaty signed at Pooshapuckanuck on the 16th of November, 1805, they accordingly ceded all their lands south of a line to be run from t...
It is now, perhaps, as interesting to obtain footing for a strong settlement of militia along our southern frontier eastward of the Mississi...
But progressive difficulties in our foreign relations have brought into view considerations other than those which then prevailed.
The principles of our Government leading us to the employment of such moderate garrisons in time of peace as may merely take care of the pos...
These papers have not yet been found in the office.
The papers already described therefore constitute the whole of the information on the subjects deposited in the public offices during the pr...
Should any want of power in the court to compel the rendering of testimony obstruct that full and impartial inquiry which alone can establis...
These designations not at all suiting us, their proposals were declined for that reason, and with an intimation that if their own convenienc...
I ask their advice and consent as to its ratification.
I therefore now transmit the treaty for the consideration of the Senate, and I ask their advice and consent as to its ratification.
